Canadian Coast Guard renewal program consists of acquisition of 34 Cape Class Search and Rescue Lifeboats [Image: Canadian Coast Guard]
The Canadian Government is to speculate CAD 2.5 billion (about US$1.8 billion) in renewing the Canadian Coast Guard’s small vessel fleet, which performs a important position for the company, particularly in shallow coastal waters and inland lakes and rivers the place bigger ships can’t function.
The funding supplies for the acquisition of as much as 61 small vessels and the continuing alternative of small craft, barges and work boats with new fashionable tools. It will allow thee Canadian Coast Guard’s small vessels fleet and allow the Canadian Coast Guard to accumulate as much as:
Six Mid-shore Multi-Mission Vessels;
One Near-Shore Fishery Research Vessel;
16 Specialty Vessels comprised of:
- Two Special NavAids Vessels;
- Four Special Shallow Draft Buoy Tenders
- Four Inshore Science Vessels
- Four Special Enforcement Vessels
- Two Lake Class Vessels;
Four Air Cushion Vehicles;
34 Cape Class Search and Rescue Lifeboats.
The procurement of those small vessels will present alternatives for smaller shipyards and suppliers throughout Canada and will probably be made underneath Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy, underneath which 16 small vessels together with 14 Search and Rescue lifeboats and two Channel Survey and Sounding Vessels have beforehand been delivered to the Canadian Coast Guard.
Procurement is already underway for the development of a brand new hybrid electrical Near-Shore Fishery Research Vessel, the primary vessel to be procured underneath this funding. At the time the RFP was issued the Canadian Coast Guard famous “The successful bidder will incorporate Canadian innovative green technologies in the construction of the vessel. These include the overall design by British Columbia vessel designer Robert Allan Ltd, a propulsion and battery system by Prince Edward Island engineering firm Aspin Kemp and Associates, and deck equipment systems engineering by Nova Scotia’s Hawboldt Industries Ltd.”
